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Manx Genealogy

Re: Viking Disease
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The idea of an inscription being found is new to me, but you might be interested to read a translation of the saga of Erik the Red - in the Vinlanda Sagas - about the time of the settlement of Greenland and how they ended up on a further coast lined with trees and vines, inhabited by 'Skraelings'. They made a temporary settlement there but didn't thrive.

About 30 years ago, I think, there was an archaeological excavation of a site in Newfoundland which identified the remains of houses and workshops in the Scandinavian/Viking pattern with all the detritus of a working settlement. I think it was reburied to preserve it.